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Ovarian follicles

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Ovarian follicles
Structures found within the ovary that produce eggs.


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The hormone injections used to induce livestock and women to ovulate may force some eggs to leave ovarian follicles too early to begin and maintain a successful pregnancy, a new study reports.
In the study, researchers at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada, tested whether ovarian follicles develop in "waves" in humans, as they do in some animals.
Tilly and his colleagues began to question the dogma when they performed the first measurements of the death rate of ovarian follicles in mice.
 
 
 
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